The lawyer representing a terror suspect who was freed by a Kenyan court has claimed that his client was kidnapped and is about to be deported to Somalia.
Liban Abdulle Omar, a terror suspect arrested and charged over the Westgate Mall attack that left 68 people dead in 2013, was released from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
He then proceeded to the offices of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) from where he was to be released officially.
Omar, who is originally from Somalia, was also set free after Nairobi Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi found him innocent of being in Kenya illegally.
Andayi also declared him innocent of the charge of acquiring Kenyan identification documents under false pretences.
As Omar was being driven home, a black Subaru car intercepted and blocked them.
Immediately, more than five men wearing hoods and in civilian clothes jumped out of the car brandishing AK47 rifles.
They snatched Omar from the car, which was also carrying his sister, aunt, and other close relatives.
Before departing, the men in hoods snatched the keys from the person driving the car Omar had been traveling in.
Mbugua Mureithi, Omar’s lawyer, says that he fears for his client. Mureithi is not a stranger to the tactics often used by Kenya’s security agents.
Consequently, he believes that Omar is about to be deported.